Geoffrey Hinton

2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 15, 2023 by Yann LeCun · said 34 times in 10 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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May 15, 2023 negative
Opinion
LeCun disagrees with Geoffrey Hinton on AI-driven human extinction risk
“So I understand why, why he might have wanted to leave, but I don't agree with him at all with the whole sort of, you know, probability of human extinction or whatever.”
Yann LeCun May 15, 2023 ▶ 47:53 Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 1, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Geoffrey Hinton develops AI algorithms using physical intuition rather than equations
“I think I was very surprised at how creatively and playfully he approaches research. When we would discuss like algorithms or like optimizers or loss functions, we would discuss them often in like through physical analogy. So we'd spend a lot of time talking a…”
Nick Frosst Sep 1, 2025 ▶ 1:16 Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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